At Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:43:53 -0700, YC wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu>wrote:
>> > There used to be something where if you were to evaluate the code for
> > the module it would be instantiated right away in the namespace where
> > it was previously. I don't know if that still works. But anyways, that
> > seems hard to use effectively. A better approach is probably to create
> > a new namespace (possibly one that shares some modules with another
> > namespace if that is safe) and just reload the module there.
> >
> Thanks for the tip Robby - a couple of follow up questions
>> 1. how do I use code from another namespace within the current namespace?
> I can think of parameterizing current-namespace, but that means I would have
> to remember which function belongs in which namespace...
Right.
> 2. does the namespace (and the loaded module) gets garbage collected
> automatically if I delete the reference to them?
Yes.
Matthew